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Ask HN: Best approach to write an Objective-C tutorial

1 points by mmisu ↗ HN
Hello,

I plan to write a beginner Objective-C tutorial with a friend. I'm interested in your opinion about best approach for this.

I have two possible directions in mind:

* Pure Objective-C tutorial (I will assume the reader knows C), the reader should be able to do the exercises and test his ideas from a Terminal. In principle this tutorial can be followed on a Mac with Xcode, on a Linux or Windows computer with GNUstep. The tutorial will present simple exercises that will guide the reader through all aspects of modern Objective-C.

*Objective-C on iOS, this could be a more applied tutorial than my first idea. From start I will assume that every exercise will be tested on an iPad or iPhone. As before I will suppose that the reader knows C, I will assume zero Objective-C experience.

Thanks and I look forward to your observations.

2 comments

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karolisd
Since I want to learn Objective-C so I can make something for my iPad, the 2nd direction sounds more appealing.
hobonumber1
There are more tutorials for the latter on the internet, so it would take more work for you to make something that stands out from the large crowd of iOS tutorials. The former may be more niche, because most people these days use Obj-C for iOS development instead of command-line apps, but it may limit your audience as well.